помали

Inherited from Old Slovak pomaly, the adverbial form of pomalý. By surface analysis, univerbation of по (po) +‎ мали (mali). Cognate with Slovak pomaly.

• IPA^(key): [pɔˈmali]
• Rhymes: -ali
• Hyphenation: по‧ма‧ли

помали (pomali) (comparative помалши, superlative найпомалши, diminutive помалки or помалючки)

1. slowly, leisurely

   Synonym: (Serbism) споро (sporo)

   Antonyms: швидко (švidko), фришко (friško)

   помали алє сиґурно ― pomali alje sigurno ― slowly but surely

• Note that the comparative form is not *помалше (*pomalše), cf. Slovak pomalšie, much less *поменши (*pomenši) or *поменєй (*pomenjej).

• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1997), “полако”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (О – Ш), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 206
• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1997), “сигурно”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (О – Ш), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 587
• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M.; Timko-Djitko, O. (2010), “помали”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M.; Šlemender, M.; Čelʹovski, S. (2022), “slow”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 286